This is Aleppo today. For the last 5 years, the Syrian city has been crumbling under conflict and intense shelling from Russian-backed government forces and rebels fighting against President Assad ...

The 2016 battle for Aleppo was a turning point in the war between Syrian government forces and rebel fighters after 2011 protests against Assad’s rule turned into an all-out war. After appearing ...

Rebel forces in Syria have seized control of most of the city Aleppo after launching a surprise offensive against government forces, a war monitor reported on Saturday as Russia says it deployed ...

A war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the insurgents led by Salafi Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, – including Al-Qaeda's former Syria branch, Jabhat al-Nusra – ...

Despite the unification of armed factions under Syria’s transitional government, deep-seated rivalries and territorial ...

The Battle of Aleppo, raging since 2012, has finally taken a U-turn, as Syrian government forces backed by pro-Iranian Shiite militias captured several key areas in the militant-controlled ...

Meanwhile, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad said in an interview to be published on Thursday in the pro-regime Al Watan newspaper, that winning the battle of Aleppo does not mean ending the ...

The Battle of Aleppo was one of the bloodiest conflicts in the continuing war in Syria Tens of thousands of people died in the fighting in the period from 2012 to 2016 and hundreds of thousands ...

Several regions of Syria are witnessing the worse fighting since the battle for Aleppo least year, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says. The humanitarian organisation expressed ...

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The 2016 battle for Aleppo was a turning point in the war between Syrian government forces and rebel fighters after 2011 protests against Assad’s rule turned into an all-out war. After appearing ...